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requested the Government to secure to the Royal Commission,
or any other tribunal that might be appointed to hold the
enquiry, adequate powers to enforce the attendance of
witnesses and production of documents.
The Yestry were gratified to learn that the Government
assented to an enquiry into the administration of the Board
by a Royal Commission vested with the exceptional powers
suggested.
THE '' UNEMPLOYED."
Upon the receipt of a letter from the Vestry of Hackney
enquiring what steps it had been deemed advisable to take
with regard to finding work for the unemployed, the Vestry
put themselves in communication with the Guardians of
Westminster Union in order to ascertain to what extent any
exceptional distress prevailed in the district. The Guardians
replied that the prevalent distress had not appreciably
affected the Union, and the Yestry therefore did not deem it
necessary or expedient to take any action in the matter.
PROVISION FOR CASUAL POOR.
It came to the knowledge of the Vestry in the month of
March, that the Local Government Board were urging the
Guardians of the Westminster Union to provide accommodation
for the casual poor. Seeing that accommodation of
this nature is being provided by the Guardians of the Strand
Union, within a very short distance from St. James's, and
that the cost of erecting the necessary building, maintaining
the same, and all expenses attending the use thereof
including food for the inmates, will be a charge upon the
Metropolitan Funds, it appeared to the Vestry to be
premature to make provision of the kind in this Parish until